Fieldwork in Modern Chinese History: A Research Guide

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Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of contributors Editors’ preface: Fieldwork in Modern Chinese History Acknowledgments SECTION 1 History and fieldwork in historical perspective 1 They went to the people but did they hear them? Comments on field research in China in the 1920s and 1930s 2 A brief history of Japanese field research on China 3 The traditionalist phase in Taiwan anthropology: 1960–1980 SECTION 2 Work reflections 4 Fieldwork for Ming historians 5 Conducting fieldwork as a local: perspectives from Hulunbuir 6 Who are they, and who am I?: discovering gender and ethnicity in the Sino-Tibetan borderland 7 Ritual performance in changing local society 8 Beyond the border of disciplines and societies: from fieldwork among the Lahu to the history of bazi basins SECTION 3 Walking the ground, talking to people 9 Basic questions for fieldwork on pre-1949 Chinese society 10 Festivals in the field—a social historical perspective 11 Doing historical-anthropological fieldwork in Jiangnan: Gazetteers, newspapers, and real life 12 Incorporating historical GIS in fieldwork on Chinese culture and religion 13 Walks in Canton: doing historical anthropology in a Chinese city 14 Contextualizing ethnic classification: the case of hemu (合亩) among the Li of Hainan 15 Mud on your boots: researching the social and environmental history of conservation in Baishui county, Shaanxi during the 1950s 16 Medicine, health, and disease: among the barefoot doctors of Hangzhou 17 Discovering the Cultural Revolution in oral history 18 Walking a production chain: an interdisciplinary approach to the history of things SECTION 4 Finding and working with grassroots documents 19 Field research using contracts (qiyue): legal archives of late Qing and early Republican-era Longquan, Zhejiang 20 Account books (zhangben) in local history studies 21 Land and property deeds and urban studies: a case study of deeds collected by Ms. Liu 22 Genealogies and revolution in the Jiangxi Soviet 23 Using local public security archives from the 1950s—Poyang county, Jiangxi 24 Exploring a northern Jiangsu county Intangible Cultural Heritage archive Index